Roman Catholic Diocese of Padua
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Padua (Italian: Diocesi di Padova; Latin: Dioecesis Patavina) is an episcopal see of the Catholic Church in Veneto, northern Italy. It was erected in the 3rd century and is a suffragan of the Patriarchate of Venice.[2][3]
Diocese of Padua Dioecesis Patavina Diocesi di Padova | |
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Location | |
Country | Italy |
Statistics | |
Area | 3,297 km2 (1,273 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2016) 1,075,698 1,029,000 (est.) |
Parishes | 459 |
Information | |
Rite | Roman |
Established | 3rd Century |
Cathedral | Basilica Cattedrale di S. Maria |
Secular priests | 685 (diocesan) 273 (religious orders) 53 Permanent Deacons |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Claudio Cipolla[1] |
Bishops emeritus | Antonio Mattiazzo |
Map | |
Website | |
www.diocesipadova.it |
The current Bishop is Claudio Cipolla.
The diocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its bishop is the Cathedral-Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta. The diocese also contains the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua and the Basilica of Santa Giustina.
Territory
The Diocese of Padua covers the most part of the Province of Padua, out of a main part of the higher plain. It also includes areas from the surrounding provinces of Vicenza (Thiene, Asiago and Plateau of the Sette Comuni, Monte Grappa, southern Valsugana), Venice (Riviera del Brenta), Treviso (Valdobbiadene) and Belluno (Quero).
List of Bishops of Padua
- Aistolfo (808–1030)[4]
- Burcardo (1031–1045)[4]
- Arnaldo (1046–1048)[4]
- Bernardo Maltraverso(1048–1059)[4]
- Waltolf (1060–1064)[4]
- Olderico (1064–1080)[4]
- Milone (1084–1095)[4]
- Pietro (1096–1106)[4]
- Sinibaldo (1106–1125)[4]
- Bellino Bertaldo (1128–1147)[4]
- Giovanni Cacio (1148–1165)[4]
- Gerardo Offreducci da Marostica (1165–1213)[4]
- Giordano (1214–1228)[4]
- Giacomo Corrado (1229–1239)[4]
- Sigebaldo Caballazio (1243–1249)[4]
- Giovanni Forzatè (1251–1283)[4]
- Bernardo Platon (1287–1295)[4]
- Giovanni Savelli (1295–1299)[4]
- Ottobono di Razzi (1299–1302)[4]
- Pagano della Torre (1302–1319)[4]
- Ildebrandino Conti (1319–1352)[4]
- Giovanni Orsini (1353–1359)[4]
- Pietro Pileo di Prata(1359–1370)[4]
- Giovanni Piacentini (1370–1371)[4]
- Elia Beaufort (1371–1373)[4]
- Raimondo (1374–1386)[4]
- Giovanni Enselmini (1388–1392)[4]
- Ugo Roberti (1392–1396)[4]
- Stefano da Carrara (1396–1405)[4]
- Alberto Micheli (1405–1409)[4]
- Pietro Marcello (1409–1428)[4]
- Pietro Donato (1428–1447)[4]
- Fantino Dandolo (1448–1459)[4]
- Pietro Barbo (1459–1460)[4]
- Jacopo Zeno (1460–1481)[4]
- Pietro Foscari (1481–1485)[4]
- Hieronymus Lando (1485–1487)[5]
- Pietro Barozzi (1487–1507)[4]
- Sisto Gara della Rovere (1509–1517)[4]
- Marco Cornaro (cardinal) (1517–1524)[4]
- Francesco Pisani (1524–1555)[4]
- Luigi Pisani (1555–1570)[4]
- Nicolò Ormanetto (1570–1577)[4]
- Federico Cornaro (1577–1590)[4]
- Alvise Corner (1590–1594)[4]
- Marco Cornaro (bishop) (1594–1625)).[6][4]
- Pietro Valier (1625–1629)[6][4]
- Federico Baldissera Bartolomeo Cornaro (1629–1631)[6][4]
- Marco Antonio Cornaro (Marcantonio Corner) (1632–1639)[6][7][4]
- Luca Stella (1639–1641)[6][4]
- Giorgio Cornaro (bishop of Padua) (1643–1663)[6][4]
- St. Gregory Barbarigo (1664–1697)[6][4]
- Giorgio Cornaro (cardinal) (1697–1722)[4]
- Giovanni Francesco Barbarigo (1723–1730)[4]
- Giovanni Minotto Ottoboni (1730–1742)[4]
- Carlo Rezzonico (1743–1758)[4]
- Sante Veronese (1758–1767)[4]
- Antonio Maria Priuli (1767–1772)[4]
- Nicolò Antonio Giustinian (1772–1796)[4]
- Francesco Dondi Orologio (1807–1819)[4]
- Modesto Farina (1821–1856)[4]
- Federico Manfredini (1857–1882)[4]
- Giuseppe Callegari (1882–1906)[4] (Cardinal in 1903)
- Luigi Pellizzo (1906–1923)[4]
- Elia Dalla Costa (1923–1931),[4] appointed Archbishop of Florence in 1931 (Cardinal in 1933)
- Carlo Agostini (1932–1949),[4] appointed Patriarch of Venice in 1949 (Cardinal-designate in 1952, but died before 1953 consistory)
- Girolamo Bortignon, OFM Cap (1949–1982)[4]
- Filippo Franceschi (1982–1988)[4][8]
- Antonio Mattiazzo (1989–2015)[4]
- Claudio Cipolla (2015–present)[4]
References
- http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcipolla.html
- "Diocese of Padova {Padua}" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
- "Diocese of Padova" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
- "Diocese of Padova". Retrieved 2010-04-13.
- Corner, Flaminio (1755). Creta sacra sive de episcopis utriusque ritus graeci et latini in insula Cretae. Vol. II. Venice: Jo. Battista Pasquale. p. 89.
- Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice). HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol IV. pp. 275–276.
- "Bishop Marco Antonio Cornaro" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved December 14, 2016
- Mons Filippo Franceschi di Brandeglio
Books
General references for bishops
- Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo (in Latin). Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz. pp. 797–799.
- Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1913). Hierarchia catholica (in Latin). Tomus I (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
- Eubel, Conradus (ed.) (1914). Hierarchia catholica (in Latin). Tomus II (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
- Eubel, Conradus (ed.); Gulik, Guilelmus (1923). Hierarchia catholica (in Latin). Tomus III (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
- Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica (in Latin). Tomus IV (1592-1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana.
- Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi (in Latin). Tomus V (1667-1730). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio.
- Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1958). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi. Tomus VI (1730-1799). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio.
- Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1968). Hierarchia Catholica medii et recentioris aevi (in Latin). Volume VII (1800–1846). Monasterii: Libreria Regensburgiana.
- Remigius Ritzler; Pirminus Sefrin (1978). Hierarchia catholica Medii et recentioris aevi (in Latin). Volume VIII (1846–1903). Il Messaggero di S. Antonio.
- Pięta, Zenon (2002). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi (in Latin). Volume IX (1903–1922). Padua: Messagero di San Antonio. ISBN 978-88-250-1000-8.
Studies
- Giustiniani, Niccolò Antonio (1786). Serie cronologica dei Vescovi di Padova (in Italian). Padua: Stamperia del Seminario.
External links
- Catholic-Hierarchy [self-published]
- Catholic Encyclopedia
- GCatholic [self-published]